Connecticut western news., 1887-03-30
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 European market are shipped daily from Bridgeport.
 Word has passed along the line that there is to be big peach crop this year.
 Two Woodbury citizens have achiev- ed renown by capturing Is skunks this season. Whew -~~
 The Naugatuck Railroad Company has issued orders forbidding the run ming of trains over bridges at rate of speed greater than nine miles per hour.
 From and after April 5th, 1887, the traffic upon and via the ~Housatonic Railroad will be transacted in accor- dance with the requirements of the Inter State Commerce Law.
 The case of the government against the Northfeld Knife company, for vio- lating the law in regard to the importa- tion of foreign labor will come before the United States court next month. A tramp in Bridgeport, sent up for three months, cut his throat ia his Jail cell with an ordinary case knife, sever- ing the windpipe and jugular vein com pletely and bleeding to death at once. He was Finlander.
 A Canajoharie. editor has an eye to business. He offers his paper for year to ''the farmer who will lay the largest egg on his editorial table," we'll know ing he will get more than enough eggs to pay for the paper Norwalk Gazette
 Litchfeld has decided to change the location of the center school and has voted to build new school house at Q cost not exceeding $500. A motion to build of brick instead of wood was voted down. The basement will be constructed so that it can be used as 8 town hall if necessary. -,.~.
 The Boundary Commissioners have fully agreed on all questions under con- sideration concerning the boundary line between Connecticut and Rhode Island. The expense incurred by the change in boundary will be borne equally by the two States.
 The annual session of the New York East conference will be held in the Methodist church, Mount Vernon. N Y., Rev c. $. Wing, pastor, beginning Thursday, April 2. Bishop William l.. Harris will preside. The conference contains over 25O churches.
 A Thomaston man has patented q burglar alarm which is attracting con. siderable notice among capitalists anl manufacturers, and he has received many valuable offers for the patent right. The contrivance is very simple but effectual in sounding 0 sharp alarm if the window or door to which 1t IS attached IS tempered with.
 An old colored man in Florida recent ly applied for divorce. His reasons for taking this step, he said, was indis- putably good. He married his wife thinking she had an orange grove, and, to his sorrow, soon learned that all she possessed in the world WAS sour or ange tree and wash tub. Gov Rusk, of Wisconsin,, says |: "Everyone's right to work for himself, or for anyone else, on such terms as he may choose to make, must be main tained at all hazards. He who inter- feres with this principle, tramples upon the most sacred of human rights and upon a consecrated principle of Ameri- can liberty"
 The Hartford Post says " Captain Moore, the Winsted aeronaut, is making an enormous balloon which will hold 18,0OO feet of gas and will carry twelve persons. The muslin used in making it, if laid out in strips of the width manufactured, would extend nearly a mile The balloon will be taken to Chicago and used, in part, for maki ing aerial observations for the United States government.
 A Danbury man had setting hen die l on the nest. He discovered the fact before the eggs were cold, took the 1 nest and placed it in basket, with the eggs, put rooster on them and covered him up, feeding and giving him water without letting him off, The rooste, succeeded in matching thirteen chicks out of fifteen eggs, hovers them unde, his wings and seems very proud o1 them.
 The New Haven Register says that il people, and to many lawyers even, that is that when justice of the peace sees l jail at once without trial and there is nc appeal If he hears citizen swear he can fine him $l, and if the offender does not settle. can call an officer and send him to jail.
 The house occupied by Mrs Col Smitt was discovered on fire, in Providen tial manner, Saturday. Mrs Smith Jeff home about noon and went to the tow hall to attend the temperance meeting in the midst of which she was strongly impressed with the necessity of al immediate return to her home, whicl she did. arriving. just as the fire broke out around the chimney. She gave the alarm, help quickly arrived and extin guished the flames The damage was slight Woodbury Reporter.
 The statistics furnished by the statt board of health show that Connecticut. population is probably 664,OOO. Abou 42 births occur daily, and IA marriages against B deaths. There are 23 births to every 1000 population and the natural increment 10. New Haver county presents the most encouraging growth, and Litchfeld the lowest birth rate, while Middlesex tine smallest gair of births over deaths. The total nun Der of births registered in 1885, wa 15, 496, marriages 5,091, deaths 12.O33
 Titus Ruggles' barn at Bridgewate was burned one night recently ant tracks in the mud clearly indicated tha the author of the blaze was woma, who lived in the family. While com parisons were being made with her shoe into the footprints she slipped over fence and fled like a deer across tn, lots, barefooted and bareheaded. In { few minutes six men were pursuing her but they could not gain an inch, an, finally lost sight of her. After man, hnnrs search she WAS fnnnd secreted ii